![Blue background with black pixelated text reading "It's cute when you think I'm listening to you =]" in four identical](/image/74809c7c63566292284330ab376e12df60bf763be93d3628d44536fe547a3116){kind=small}
![Pixelated cartoon of Winnie the Pooh and Tigger hugging, with text overlays reading "we go together like" and "pooh+tigger (333) [ forever ]", rendered in yellow-brown tones on white background.](/image/74af4d9be297a6af89cdc421fa5234bf074760849e3a373a37c87e0571e3c8ab){kind=small}
![Pixelated image of a smiling person with light brown hair on the left, next to red with white text reading "Cody Linley is sooo hott!!! :]" and "i lovee himm forever! <3<3"](/image/74d8f08f9942e2870a05917d79a11ffe968a1d8a16bafbaf71a723e6f37a9714){kind=small}
Preserving the tiny pictures that made the internet personal.
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Browse 14,254 preserved Affectionate AIM buddy icons gathered from 333 source collections. This automatically maintained collection currently includes 13,011 animated icons and 14,254 icons with searchable visual descriptions.
A language of tiny pictures
A picture barely 50 pixels wide, sitting beside an AIM screen name, could announce a mood, a fandom, an inside joke, or who someone wanted to be that day.
Read the short historyRecovered from the early web
Buddy icons survive in old directories, fan sites, downloadable packs, and web archives. The archive preserves the original files, groups known copies, and records where each one was found.
How the archive works